Title Transcending the new woman : multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / Charlotte J. Rich.

Publication Info.	Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.
Contents	Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America -- Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights -- From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence -- A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman -- "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : María Cristina Mena and American womanhood -- Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska -- Conclusion.
Summary	"Examines multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America at the dawn of the twentieth century, opening up a world of literary texts that lend new insight, revealing how these authors articulated the contradictions of the American New Woman, and how social class, race, or ethnicity impacted women's experiences"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject	American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Minorities in literature.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	Feminism in literature.
	Feminist literature -- History and criticism.
	Progressivism (United States politics)
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
	American fiction -- Minority authors. (OCoLC)fst00807087
	American fiction -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807099
	Ethnicity in literature. (OCoLC)fst00916067
	Feminism in literature. (OCoLC)fst00922752
	Feminist literature. (OCoLC)fst00922784
	Minorities in literature. (OCoLC)fst01023274
	Progressivism (United States politics) (OCoLC)fst01078751
	Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	Electronic books.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Rich, Charlotte J. Transcending the new woman. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008028284
ISBN	9780826266637 (electronic bk.)
	0826266630 (electronic bk.)

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